It’s only news now because it was challenged by two Canadians living in the U.S., overturned last year, but reinstated last week in a ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Which means it was in place during four Liberal mandates before the Conservatives took office. As National Post’s Tristin Hopper notes, the law that prevents Canadians from voting if they’ve been out of Canada five years or more was introduced in 1993. But I’m an expatriate and the Harper government won’t let expatriates participate in Canadian elections,” he says in a letter to the Globe & Mail.Įxcept it’s not the Harper government doing anything of the kind. “Ask any journalist that’s ever interviewed me what nationality I proudly proclaim to have.
That’s largely the point Sutherland makes in his diatribe against the Harper government for preventing him from voting. Olympians than they do to the management of national affairs in Ottawa. It would be little trouble to stay better informed than many Canadians, who pay more attention to the gender confusion of former U.S.
If he wants, Sutherland could monitor Canadian affairs quite handily. Article content The law that prevents Canadians from voting if they’ve been out of Canada five years or more was introduced in 1993ĭonald Sutherland has it easier.
